HYPNACE*.] '7 [Stereodon. 



Pylaisia sericea DE NOT. EPILOGO 207 (1869). 



Stereodon (Pylaiea) subrufus LINDB. Musa Scand. 38 (1879)- 



Pylaisia intricate (non BR. SCH.) VENT. & BOTT. Enum. 19 (1884). 



Isotheiium intricatum BOUL. Muse. Fr. 148 (1884). 



Isothecium chryseum (non Schwaeg.) SPRUCE in Ann. nat. hist, iii, 147 (1849). 



Dioicous ; in lax interwoven olivaceous-green tufts, rufescent at base ; 

 branches slender, suberect or creeping. Leaves subsecund, erecto-patent, 

 lanceolate-subulate, entire, nerveless ; cells flexuose-linear, uniform. Perich. 

 bracts erect, ovato-lanceolate, not plicate, suddenly extended in a long 

 flexuose subula ; seta red ; capsule erect, ovate-oblong, tapering below into- 

 a neck, castaneous ; lid conic, oblique, orange ; teeth shorter than the 

 endostome, processes perforated, cilia none. 

 HAB. Damp shaded calcareous rocks in subalpine districts ; not rare. Fr. 6. 



Nant-y-Fridd (Wilson 1833)!! Green's Clough, Malham (Nowell 1859)! Dunoon (Hunt 

 1866)! Rannoch (B. White 1867) ! Buxton (Hunt 1867) ! ! Micklefell (Binstead 1882) ! ! 

 Whitbarrow (Stabler 1868). Trcsachs (Hunt 1866) ! ! Ben Bulben, Sligo c. fr. (Moore- 

 1854). Millersdale and Cheedale (Holt 1880). Cwm Bychan (Rogers 1889). 



14. STEREODON RTTFESCENS (Dicks.) Mitt. 



Dioicous ; erect with few branches, in reddish shining tufts. Leaves, 

 plicate, erecto-patent, lanceolate-acuminate, subsecund, entire, nerveless- 

 Capsule erect, subcylindric, lid conical, rostellate. (T. CXV, E.) 



S\K.Hypnum rufescens DICKS. PI. crypt, fasc. Ill, p. 9, t. 8, f. 4 (1793). HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 

 59 ('795)- WITHER. Bot. arrang. 3 ed. iii, 846 (1796). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 95,. 

 t. 3, f. I (1801), Sp. muse. II, 118 (1812). SM. Fl. Brit. 1317 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 2296. 

 P. BEAUV. Prodr. 69 (1805). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 342 (1807). ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii,. 

 104 (1813). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. Br. 99 (1818). GRAY Nat. arrang. i, 757 (1821). HOOK. 

 Fl. Scot P. 2, 143 (1821). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, s. Ill, 297 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. 

 ii, 384 (1851). 



Leskea rufescens SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 178, t. 86 (1816). BRID. Mant. 143 (1816), Bry.. 

 univ. ii, 284 (1827). FUNCK Moost. 55, t. 36 (1821). GREV. Mem. Werner. Soc. iii, 425. 

 DE Nor. Syllab. 63 (1838). WILS. Bryol. Brit. 334 (1855). 



Isothecium rufescens Hueben. Muse. germ. 600 (1833). 



Orthotheciunt rufescens BR. SCH. Bry. Eur. fasc. 48, p. 3, t. 1 (1851). Synops. 523 (1860)^ 

 2 ed. 631. BERK. Handb. 14 (1863). MILDE Bry. Siles. 29 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 

 19 (1884). HUSN. Muse. Gall. 31, t. 90 (1892). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 39 (1896). 

 LIMPR. in RABEN. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 16 (1896). 



Holntgrenia rufescens LINDB. Oefv. Vet Ak. Foerh. 1862, p. 605. 

 Stereodon (Pylaisia) rufescens MITT. Journ. Linn. Soc. viii, 40 (1864). 

 Pylaisia rufescens DE NOT. Epilogo 206 (1869). 

 Ortholhedum complanatum KINDB. Laubm. Schwed. & Norw. 45 (1883). 



Dioicous ; in soft rufescent glossy tufts, ascending ; stem repeatedly 

 dichotomous, with few branches. Leaves erecto-patent and subsecund, 

 not decurrent, elongate lanceolate, gradually acuminate, multiplicate, 



